External Nose Drafts 3

Here's the full series of grafts I have commissioned so far - not their final incarnations, but looking good I think.

External Nose Drafts 2

Here's an example of our external nose figure used as a template - adding in spreader grafts and some (very sketchy) rim grafts. There's still work to do yet!

External Nose Drafts 1

Here's our latest project - I'm working on a chapter on valve surgery techniques and have commissioned Charlie (for a very reasonable fee) to help us out with illustrations of the external nose and graft techniques involving the nasal cartilages.
I think the greyscale version illustrates well the reason I wanted to amend our previous colour scheme - even in greyscale, the differences between bone and cartilage are well illustrated.
The overall shape needs work, as does the shape of the lower laterals, but it's a respectable start.

Nasal Valve Drafts 2

Shading and colour added...

Nasal Valve Drafts 1

Charlie's first outline of our illustration of the nasal valve region.

Cottle's Areas Draft 2

This is a good start on the colours, but doesn't show distinction between cartilage and bone when converted to greyscale. We therefore decided to make the bone darker - see final versions (apologies - I know this does compromise the subtle colouring in other ways, but I think it is important that the plots retain utility in all forms of print). Martyn

Cottle's Areas Draft 1

Charlie seems to have given up making such sketchy outlines - this is almost the first 'outline' he sent me. We still have some work to do on colouring and deciding exactly where the Cottles' areas are.
We really want to lay down a template for colour use that we can work with in all out later projects also, and I have pushed to try to make the differences show through when a figure is 'flattened' by conversion to greyscale (e.g. in print).
When it comes to Cottles' areas, precise locations are a subject of great debate and very variable opinion, even within the published literature. I will be involving a number of experts and reading several articles to get this right (hopefully).